HP Laserjet 4600 - Print Quality on Photos

Ever since I got this printer, it has ALWAYS printed it's demo page (fishing gear) perfectly, but almost never prints a photo very well.
I'm not very knowledgable about making the adjustments necessary.
Is this a common problem?
I'm trying to print on plain paper, XP-SP2. I recently added 256MB of memory to the printer, but the photographic printing was always marginal.
Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.
That demo page looks great though! Just don't get it!
Message Edited by ShadowAndMax on 03-13-2009 07:10 PM

try resetting the settings to default

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